(3 cr.) This course provides students with training and
experience in mentoring colleagues--novice or
experienced teachers--through a complete coaching
cycle. Students actively participate in a coaching
cycle that is designed to provide teachers with
support over a period of consecutive days as they
develop their teaching practice. Students develop
skills necessary to support teachers through
modeling lessons, co-planning and co-teaching
lessons, conducting classroom observations and
providing feedback to those literacy teachers to
foster reflection. Ultimately, students explore
the best practices in mentoring teachers to
improve the teaching of literacy and to develop a
peer-to-peer coaching network for inquiry,
conversation, collaboration and support.
Prerequisite: EDL 501.